Dr. Amar Bose son of a freedom fighter and a political dissident who immigrated from Calcutta during the 1930s was brought up in Philadelphia. He became more attached to technology at a tender age of thirteen when he started repairing model trains to support the income of his family. Dr. Bose later started repairing transistors and entered Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for graduate education. He completed his BS in Electrical Engineering in 1950 and has an idea in his mind to invent a stereo loudspeaker that would reproduce a sound that audience hears at a great concert hall in a domestic environment.

Bose's early patents won him great respect within the industry; but he needed capital in order to do further research and begin production. In time, Bose received financial support from MIT professor Y. W. Lee, and founded Bose Corporation (1964). He first invented the 901 (R) Direct/Reflecting (R) speaker system in 1968, it was the first stereo loudspeakers that utilised the space around them instead of reproducing sound as if in vacuum.

Bose then developed Auditioner(R) audio demonstrator, which takes the specifications of a given room, hall, or other space and demonstrates precisely how a given Bose speaker system will sound in that space even before it is built. Bose's sense of spatial acoustics also helped him conquer the car stereo market, with systems that transformed the on-the-road listening experience

Dr. Amar Bose has earned over two dozen patents, and he still works full time, directing a more than $550 million company, whose products can be found in Olympics stadiums, Broadway theatres, the Sistine Chapel, and the Space Shuttle (where his noise cancellation system protects the astronauts from permanent hearing damage). Bose also teaches electrical engineering and computer science at MIT, and is a local celebrity in the fields of electronics and education.